We can sometimes be motivated to reverse things in Boston. And I occasionally get asked how to reverse the sort direction from MATLAB. So instead of sorting A and then having B follow... read more >>

Recently a colleague was hoping to write some code to iterate over fields in a structure. There are at least three different ways I can think of, some more straight-forward... read more >>

There are a lot of ways to create reusable tools and widgets in lots of programming languages, including MATLAB. Today I
want to illustrate creating a reusable visualization tool that can then be... read more >>

Users sometimes want to monitor the progress of some calculation or simulation. Here's a recent example from the MATLAB newsgroup. Contents ... read more >>

I have had customers ask me occasionally about what happens during an indexed assignment when indices are repeated. The answer is that it depends on how you do the... read more >>

GOTO Humor For those of you who wonder why MATLAB does not have a goto statement, you might look at this cartoon in addition to reading an earlier blog article I wrote. I am amused to see... read more >>

I've recently been asked some questions about programming safely to account for N-dimensional data. Techniquest that are tried-and-true for two dimensions don't all scale to N... read more >>

I was just helping someone debug a piece of code that was giving an incorrect answer. The code returned an output with a shape different than the coder expected. I... read more >>

I know there are a large number of experienced MATLAB users who read this blog. If you happen to live in the Boston area and are interested in joining some like-minded... read more >>

Someone recently asked me to discuss X-Y versus row-column indexing. Contents Two Conventions ... read more >>